I use Claude and ChatGPT daily and I have my own list in a spreadsheet that I keep an eye on because things are changing rapidly. I am going to try a few more now based on your reviews - in particular, IO 💛🙌
Finally, I am part of a pretty large engineering and product group, and we are discussing these solutions constantly and reviewing. I am working on my own product based on AI on the side as well as writing books and music videos and content trying these solutions daily. It’s a lot of fun!
You are obviously one of the naturally talented crew. For those of us who are creative and imaginative but not naturally blessed with artistic talent, AI allows us to create the things we imagine.
Thanks for this, Peter, I’m spending a lot of time learning how to leverage AI to speed up my workflow, this piece highlights a few new tools.
Do you have a similar post that highlights LM Studio, or anything on navigating Hugging Face? It’s quite painful for a non-coder to decipher many of the open-source AI models!
As someone who often has to read a lot of scientific articles to get a grasp of the current state of the art, I find notebook LM extremely useful. Not so much for the podcast, but for its ability to give me a holistic summary of several articles and provide me with answers based on the articles content. I look forward to what they’ll do next with this tool!
They're all front runners among other competitors when compared like for like. I find that once a feature is released, it's available for the other's in the field.
I take my hat off to Perplexity, they're innovative. I think they're feature rich & miles from the next competitor in the space.
This is a pretty good list. They are so many tools these days replacing each other. As Deana mentioned, I also update my stack constantly. I used to use Perplexity but since ChatGPT has now internet connection, and provide source, I don’t see the interest. Also I found Perplexity to hallucinate much more. Another great tool I use not on this list is Reclaim AI, which automatically schedule and reschedule your meetings and task list by priority and availability of your other colleagues (big time saving).
DeepImg AI would likely rank in A-tier as a best-in-class creative suite that’s free, user-friendly, and versatile. It solves the pain points he identifies in tools like HeyGen, Playground AI, and Figma AI while matching the accessibility of Grok and the innovation of Runway.
By integrating DeepImg AI into your toolkit, you’d gain a frictionless way to elevate content creation, making it a natural addition to your “best-in-class” recommendations. :)
Have you ever tried Cline (https://github.com/cline/cline) as autonomous coding agent? It’s not properly an AI itself but it works on top of the best LLMs (you can choose which one) and it’s open source.
I feel like this list needs to be refreshed every two months. There’s so much happening so fast. Also, Figma just entered the chat to compete with Framer and Lovable (well, also Illustrator and Procreate, but that’s another story).
I appreciate the reverse-ordering for the article. There was no way I would make it to D level if it was at the end of the page lol.
haha yeah I had to start with some rants first
I feel this list.
I use Claude and ChatGPT daily and I have my own list in a spreadsheet that I keep an eye on because things are changing rapidly. I am going to try a few more now based on your reviews - in particular, IO 💛🙌
Finally, I am part of a pretty large engineering and product group, and we are discussing these solutions constantly and reviewing. I am working on my own product based on AI on the side as well as writing books and music videos and content trying these solutions daily. It’s a lot of fun!
Dump and avoid all AI shit.
It’s not vital to creative individuals and the process they depend on with their imagination.
Plus it’s comprised of stolen copyrighted data. A scourge.
You are obviously one of the naturally talented crew. For those of us who are creative and imaginative but not naturally blessed with artistic talent, AI allows us to create the things we imagine.
That's a very hot take.
SAVAGE!
Cursor belong sin S tier
perplexity belongs in A tier
It is crazy how much can get accomplished with so many great AI tool offers. This list saved me hours of research.
Thank you for the share, Peter!
But what about Deepseek?
I do like it, but it's clunkyyyy.
Thanks for this, Peter, I’m spending a lot of time learning how to leverage AI to speed up my workflow, this piece highlights a few new tools.
Do you have a similar post that highlights LM Studio, or anything on navigating Hugging Face? It’s quite painful for a non-coder to decipher many of the open-source AI models!
As someone who often has to read a lot of scientific articles to get a grasp of the current state of the art, I find notebook LM extremely useful. Not so much for the podcast, but for its ability to give me a holistic summary of several articles and provide me with answers based on the articles content. I look forward to what they’ll do next with this tool!
It's really helpful.
That covers some great AI tools Peter. 👏
They're all front runners among other competitors when compared like for like. I find that once a feature is released, it's available for the other's in the field.
I take my hat off to Perplexity, they're innovative. I think they're feature rich & miles from the next competitor in the space.
Thanks for this! Great to see Granola in there. Am obsessed
This is a pretty good list. They are so many tools these days replacing each other. As Deana mentioned, I also update my stack constantly. I used to use Perplexity but since ChatGPT has now internet connection, and provide source, I don’t see the interest. Also I found Perplexity to hallucinate much more. Another great tool I use not on this list is Reclaim AI, which automatically schedule and reschedule your meetings and task list by priority and availability of your other colleagues (big time saving).
DeepImg AI would likely rank in A-tier as a best-in-class creative suite that’s free, user-friendly, and versatile. It solves the pain points he identifies in tools like HeyGen, Playground AI, and Figma AI while matching the accessibility of Grok and the innovation of Runway.
By integrating DeepImg AI into your toolkit, you’d gain a frictionless way to elevate content creation, making it a natural addition to your “best-in-class” recommendations. :)
These AI rankings fluctuate fast.
Agreed. But that's to be expected given how fast new releases come out.
Have you ever tried Cline (https://github.com/cline/cline) as autonomous coding agent? It’s not properly an AI itself but it works on top of the best LLMs (you can choose which one) and it’s open source.
A lot of people are building prompts.
I built a runtime.
NahgOS is a system that governs AI behavior — not by hacking the model, but by enforcing scroll structure:
tone, duration, collapse triggers, and exit conditions.
It works inside ChatGPT.
It holds tone inside Grok.
And it’s fully scroll-based — no jailbreaks, no vibe-chasing.
Here’s the full overview:
open.substack.com/pub/nahgos/p/introducing-nahgos-structure-over
One BootNahg in the suite is especially useful:
BootNahg #11: Chat-to-Chat Memory Scroll
It captures key breakthroughs, derailments, tone shifts, and unfinished ideas — then makes them portable across sessions.
Not memory. Not summary.
Just structure that scrolls.
Start here:
open.substack.com/pub/nahgos/p/introducing-bootnahgs
I feel like this list needs to be refreshed every two months. There’s so much happening so fast. Also, Figma just entered the chat to compete with Framer and Lovable (well, also Illustrator and Procreate, but that’s another story).